Michael P. Carroll argues that the academic study of religion in the United States continues to be shaped by a "Protestant imagination" that has warped our perception of the American religious experience and its written history and analysis.In this provocative study, Carroll explores a number of historiographical puzzles that emerge from the American Catholic story as it has been understood thr…
This open access book offers an overview of the beautiful, powerful, and dynamic array of opportunities to promote health through the arts from theoretical, methodological, pedagogical, and critical perspectives. This is the first-known text to connect the disparate inter-disciplinary literatures into a coherent volume for health promotion practitioners, researchers, and teachers. It provides a…
This open access edited volume explores the past, present, and future of artificiality and sustainability in entrepreneurship – the unforeseen consequences and ways to advance to a sustainable future. In particular, it connects artificiality, sustainability and entrepreneurship, intertwining artificial with the specific phenomenon of those novel digital technologies that provoke continuous an…
There exists a profound conflict at the heart of oncology drug development. The efficiency of the drug development process is falling, leading to higher costs per approved drug, at the same time personalised medicine is limiting the target market of each new medicine. Even as the global economic burden of cancer increases, the current paradigm in drug development is unsustainable. In this book,…
The aim of this Special Issue is to review, understand, and evaluate new and exciting opportunities from the field on regenerative medicine, biomaterials, and stem cell research for the bioengineering of human liver grafts that can be applied for transplantation and personalized treatment of end-stage liver disease.The development of culture conditions for long-term expansion of LGR5+ intestina…
Dear Colleagues,All types of biomass, and their waste, comprised one the pillars of the preindustrial,pre-fossil fuel, agriculture-based economies of the past. Traditionalpractices of biomass waste management were applied, but not necessarily in asophisticated and efficient way, and included everything from agricultural activitiesto food production, animal feed, natural fiber separation, and pr…
Biara Buddha, baik di India Kuno maupun Tiongkok, telah memainkan peran sosial yang krusial, baik bagi orang-orang religius maupun awam. Mereka secara tepat menarik perhatian banyak cendekiawan, yang membahas latar belakang sejarah, jaringan institusional, atau guru-guru berpengaruh. Namun, beberapa aspek kehidupan monastik belum mendapatkan perhatian yang layak. Oleh karena itu, buku ini bertu…
Buku ini tersedia sebagai akses terbuka melalui program Bloomsbury Open Access dan tersedia di www.bloomsburycollections.com. Buku Guy Standing yang sangat berpengaruh pada tahun 2011 memperkenalkan Precariat sebagai kelas massa yang sedang berkembang, yang dicirikan oleh ketidaksetaraan dan ketidakamanan. Standing menguraikan sifat Precariat yang semakin global sebagai fenomena sosial, terutam…
Dokumen ini bertujuan untuk merangkum konsensus ilmiah terkait setiap langkah alur kerja lapangan dan laboratorium yang terlibat dalam jenis sampel dan analisis yang paling umum. Kami tidak membahas secara rinci mengenai bioinformatika (pemrosesan komputasi data sekuens) dan analisis data karena ini adalah topik yang luas. Kami secara unik menempatkan langkah-langkah lapangan dan laboratorium d…
Momok populisme' mungkin merupakan deskripsi yang tepat untuk apa yang terjadi di berbagai belahan dunia, tetapi apakah itu berlaku untuk Selandia Baru? Segera setelah pemilihan umum Selandia Baru 2017, partai populis New Zealand First memperoleh peran penting dalam koalisi dengan Partai Buruh, yang membuat beberapa pengamat internasional menyarankan bahwa itu mewakili pengambilalihan pemerinta…